Loose End

posted February 21st, 2013, 8:19 pm

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February 21st, 2013, 8:19 pm

Okay, so this is the REAL last page of the chapter. I just wanted to make sure Kellen was addressed before moving on (more for the sake of her whereabouts than anything), since she was absent throughout this entire chapter. But for how little resolution we actually get, there are some interesting things to learn here (mostly within the first two panels).

The fourth panel was a last minute change too. Originally, I was considering dragging things out with Rain’s family – essentially having Rain face her sister in a different chapter later on. But besides feeling redundant, it just didn’t feel possible for Kellen to NOT find out sooner or later at this point. Plus, I feel like it would be pretty foolish for Rain to repeat the same course of events that clearly didn’t work for her once.

So, opinion time: Based on what we know about Kellen, how do we think she’ll react to this?

February 21st, 2013, 11:29 pm

Ugh.

February 22nd, 2013, 1:43 am

Well, so far there's been confused but accepting (Gavin), blithely accepting if clueless (Rudy), accepting (Fara and Maria), judgmental nonacceptance (Aiken). Seems like she'd be confused nonacceptance, of the sort along the lines of "Was it because there were no positive male figures? is it somehow my fault?" etc.

Of course, this sort of nonacceptance isn't the permanent sort either, just massive confusion about having 'the norm' fractured.

February 22nd, 2013, 11:56 am

February 22nd, 2013, 12:23 pm

Well in the prologue she was the ignorant-but-sympathetic type whereas Aiken was... well... worse. That gives me hope that she'll be open to new concepts if she gives Fara chance to articulate them. On the other hand, I seem to remember she ranted to Fara one time about always being left out of things, always being the last one to know stuff, etc...

I think maybe she'll be a bit pissed off initially about the fact that she didn't already know, but give her a couple of hours, maybe a day, and she'll want to accommodate the change, although it might take her awhile to unlearn cissexist assumptions and learn how to be an ally

February 24th, 2013, 10:01 am

This might be a long shot, but Kellen's vagueness on where she is and the fact that the unnecessary sentence "She invited me" is in there makes me think that Kellen may be with a girlfriend. Can't recall, do we know anything about Kellen's life?